Activism News — Topix

Amnesty International is demanding Zimbabwean government take immediate action to protect 250 people who were forcibly evicted from their homes on 25 August.

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Student activist Christina Chan Hau-man was found not guilty in Eastern Court on Friday of assaulting a policewoman during a protest on New Year's Day.

At the urging of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles plans to warn motorists that leaving dogs and cats unattended in hot cars is a crime.

Two Greenpeace activists will face possible jail terms in Japan on Monday for stealing a box of whale meat in a trial the environmental group says will test the country's limits on political activism.

The Chinese star of "Lust, Caution," Tang Wei, has been cast as one of Mao Zedong's early girlfriends in a propaganda film to commemorate the 90th anniversary of China's Communist Party, marking her full comeback after a reported blacklisting.

Cairn Energy was forced to shut down oil exploration operations in the Arctic after Greenpeace activists managed to breach a security perimeter, scale one of its rigs and then fasten themselves to it.

Last spring, Edison International allowed shareholders to vote on the compensation of the utility giant's executives for the first time.

Silent protest during a Senate hearing on Guantanamo Bay: Tuesday evening, hear from a CCR lawyer trying to stop a "targeted killing" by the United States in Yemen and who represents men detained at Guantanamo -- where Yemeni men constitute the largest group of remaining prisoners, all declared by the Obama administration to be indefinitely ...

James Lee, who police say was responsible for the Discovery Channel hostage crisis in Silver Spring, Md., Wednesday, was shot and killed.

Longtime O.C. activist Zoe Ann Nicholson is in the documentary "March On! Their Stories Are The Reason We March!" It premieres Sept.

In this Jan. 23, 2002, file photo John Walker Lindh is seen in a photo released by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Feb.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has kept an extensive file on exotic animal owner Sam Mazzola and urged the county sheriff and prosecutor to charge the Columbia Township man with reckless homicide in the fatal Aug.

A video apparently showing a young woman throwing live puppies into a river has sparked outrage across the Internet.

Virginia's attorney general has the authority to investigate whether a former University of Virginia climate-change researcher defrauded state taxpayers, but the prosecutor has failed so far to spell out what he suspects the professor did wrong, a judge ruled Monday.

A Hogansville timber tycoon is donating $1.4 million to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

On more than one occasion vegans have been accused of practicing a privileged activism.

The Unity College team is Jason Reynolds '05, who is featured in the documentary A Road Not Taken and Jesse Pyles, Unity College Sustainability Coordinator.

Civil rights groups are suing an Orange County government contractor that was the target of an immigration raid this summer.

Amnesty International has blasted Rwanda`s laws on genocide ideology, which the campaigning group said are being used to suppress political dissent.